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Sebastian Lang-Lessing's first season as Music Director of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra has garnered praise from the press. He designed a Tchaikovsky Festival with all symphonies and piano concertos. He will conduct two cycles of the complete Beethoven symphonies in 2011/2012. As Chief conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra he inaugurated an annual Sydney season and recorded many CD's, including the complete Mendelssohn and Schumann symphonies. New releases in 2011 will be the last three Mozart symphonies, a Grieg and a Schubert CD. As Music Director and artistic advisor of the Cape Town Opera he conducted the "Rosenkavalier" production in 2010. Awarded with the Ferenc Fricsay Prize, he started his career as resident conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1999 and conducted his highly regarded come-back with Wagner's "Rienzi" in 2010 and will conduct the revivals of this production in 2012 and 2013. His international career started at the Opéra Bastille de Paris, followed among others by engagements at Opera Houses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Hamburg, Bordeaux, Bari, Oslo and Stockholm. From 1999 till 2006 he was Music Director of the Opéra National de Lorraine and the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique in Nancy. He conducted many major orchestras in all five continents. Sebastian Lang-Lessing will go on tour with the American soprano Renée Fleming in the United States in 2012.

July 2011